End of Summer Pictures

Summer break really flew after the 4th of July!  Myla ended up with a compound fracture on her first metatarsal (she broke a bone on top of her foot) and was in a cast for several weeks.  Both of the girls played and played while daddy started training for his new staff and mommy tried to get everything ready for the beginning of school, the start back up of Kidz Zone and all the other little things that had to get done.  Here are a few pictures we found on our phones of the last little bit of summer break.
We also found a few pictures from Lynley's swim meet this summer.  She participated in the Mayor's Meet and we were so proud of her!  She competed in the 50 meter races for freestyle, backstroke, breast stroke, and butterfly!  She also did the 100 meter freestyle and backstroke races AND she competed with the older girls in a relay.  Her times from last year all improved a TON and she placed fourth in the butterfly!!  She did a wonderful job!

July 4th, 2015

We had a wonderful celebration on July 4th!  We started out the morning with daddy running the Four on the Fourth in Yorktown.  He ran 4 miles and then came home to have donuts with his girls.  Then we all got ready and went to Granny's house for a cook out lunch!
We had such a good time playing with Levi and Evan and Kadence!  We got to tell everybody about our trip to the zoo and see pictures from when Levi and  Evan went to the zoo!  All the grown ups talked and talked, but we all had a good time!
After lunch we went to Greg and Debbie's house to swim and to see more family!  Daddy played with us in the pool for a long time and mommy made sure we stayed lathered up with sun screen!  After lots of swimming we had more food!! :)  It was also delicious. Grandpa Dave shot off a few fireworks for us and they were so much fun to watch.
Once we were all dry and our tummies were full, we grabbed some bug spray and some snacks (for later) and headed downtown for some more play time and to get our spots to watch the fireworks!  We played on the big hill and danced to the music played by WLBC.  We lit some sparklers and had plenty of glow in the dark items to wear!!  We got flags from the firemen, ate corn on the cob and played with a bubble machine! 
FINALLY at 10:00pm the fireworks started!  It was a great show and we had no trouble sitting and watching all of them.  Myla's favorite fireworks were the ones with hearts in them and I really liked the ones that came up out of the ground and made lots of noise!
We were so tired by the time everything was done and it was time to go home!  Believe it or not, we stayed up long enough to shower and get all the sunscreen and bug spray off and then we all went to bed and slept REALLY WELL!
It was a fabulous 4th for the Douglas family!!

Day Trip

We braved the weather forcast today and headed to the Indianapolis Zoo!  Boy are we glad that we did!!  We got there just after they opened and it was such a good time because there were not tons of people (probably due to the weather forcast and the early hour).  We got to see EVERYTHING!!  A couple of our favorite parts of the day happened to be the orangutan center, the dolphin show, and the cheetah talk.
We spent lots of time watching the orangutans this morning!  We watched them eat breakfast and we got to see Rocky (the 10 yr. old boy) pick up a huge barrel with his feet and then swing all around the center.  We got so close to them!!  We also saw the alpha male playing a puzzle game on the computer with one of the zoo workers.  It was a matching game and he did great!!  It was really fun to watch all of them play and climb and eat and sometimes just sit around!  Definitely one of the coolest places we have visited!
We loved watching the dolphin show, especially when they told us about the new baby dolphin who was in the water today.  We got to go underneath the water and watch them, too!  And the dolphins danced to one of Myla's favorite songs, "Happy!"
We just happened to be at the right place at the right time and got to watch the workers feed the cheetahs a snack.  They were right in front of us and we thought it was funny that they kind of sounded like cats!
Because we started so early, we were able to see all the exhibits, from the desert meerkats to the polar bear.  We checked out the white rhino and the giraffes.  We rode the carousal and the roller coaster!  We checked on the bears twice throughout the day, per request from Myla.  We spent some quality time at the splash pad (thanks mom and dad for remembering our swim suits)!!  And we were able to check out the butterfly garden, where butterflies were all around us!
It was a great day and it never rained once!  We got hot in the afternoon, but it was probably the coolest trip to the zoo at the end of June that we could have imagined!  Seven hours of animal fun!!